Re: [Json] I-JSON Topic #5: Numbers

"Joe Hildebrand (jhildebr)" <jhildebr@cisco.com> Tue, 20 May 2014 17:46 UTC

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From: "Joe Hildebrand (jhildebr)" <jhildebr@cisco.com>
To: Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org>
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Subject: Re: [Json] I-JSON Topic #5: Numbers
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On 5/19/14, 4:54 PM, "Carsten Bormann" <cabo@tzi.org> wrote:

>On 20 May 2014, at 00:00, Joe Hildebrand (jhildebr) <jhildebr@cisco.com>
>wrote:
>
>> 4e-324
>
>That is a bad number for interop not because it is out of range, but
>because it is not something you can get from converting a binary64 into
>decimal, so it is somewhat arbitrary what happens on the way back.
>
>I would be surprised if there are actual interop problems with 5e-324.
>Consequently, I don’t quite buy a range limit at 1e-308 yet.
>(It’s a precision limit, in any case.)

That was just an easy-to-see example.  Longer numbers less than 1e-308
will also have less precision than you expect for a double, or get rounded
to zero unexpectedly.

-- 
Joe Hildebrand